Weekly · UK and allied defence
Most defence news is a press release.
This isn't.
Every Tuesday I tell you what actually moved in UK defence. Who won, who lost, and why it matters to you.
Ten minutes. Written by a human who spends all week talking to the people building this stuff.
What's inside
- The contracts that landed, and who quietly won them while everyone read the wrong press release
- Where the money went, and what that tells you about the next 12 months
- The capability gaps nobody at the primes will say out loud
- What founders and operators are actually telling me over coffee
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Nathan Weeks
Ex Parachute Regiment. Twelve years across defence and technology. I read the boring documents so you don't have to.
A small example 📬
Nathan Weeks
Britain's air defence maths has stopped working
Quick sum for you.
An attack drone costs about £20,000.
The missile we use to shoot it down costs about £1 million.
Russia launches around 200 drones a day.
Read those three lines again.
That's the problem keeping people in Main Building up at night.
Last week, the MoD quietly did something about it.
And almost everybody missed it.
Three small British firms, £3.16 million, and the start of a race across five countries.
Here's what actually happened.